[Telepathy] telepathy-resiprocate: Qt4 or Qt5?

[Daniel Pocock]

On 07/12/16 16:46, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07/12/16 16:41, Gustavo Boiko wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.pro
>> <mailto:daniel at pocock.pro>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>     On 07/12/16 16:22, Gustavo Boiko wrote:
>>     > Hi Daniel
>>     >
>>     > On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.pro <mailto:daniel at pocock.pro>
>>     > <mailto:daniel at pocock.pro <mailto:daniel at pocock.pro>>> wrote:
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >     Debian has telepathy-qt for both qt4 and qt5:
>>     >
>>     >     https://packages.qa.debian.org/t/telepathy-qt.html
>>     <https://packages.qa.debian.org/t/telepathy-qt.html>
>>     >     <https://packages.qa.debian.org/t/telepathy-qt.html
>>     <https://packages.qa.debian.org/t/telepathy-qt.html>>
>>     >
>>     >     So far, we've been building and testing telepathy-resiprocate with
>>     >     qt4 only
>>     >
>>     >     I've just updated the resiprocate 1.11.0~alpha1 to Debian, which adds a
>>     >     telepathy-resiprocate.deb for the first time.
>>     >
>>     >     Should it be changed to build against telepathy-qt5 instead of qt4 for
>>     >     the upcoming Debian release, or is there significant risk in doing that
>>     >     without more time for testing?
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > I think moving forward it is best to use telepathy-qt5. I am playing a
>>     > bit with telepathy-resiprocate and have proposed the following pull
>>     > request which changes it to use qt5 and adapts some package detection:
>>     > https://github.com/resiprocate/resiprocate/pull/73
>>     <https://github.com/resiprocate/resiprocate/pull/73>
>>     > <https://github.com/resiprocate/resiprocate/pull/73
>>     <https://github.com/resiprocate/resiprocate/pull/73>>
>>     >
>>     > Please let me know if those changes make sense.
>>     >
>>
>>     I've accepted the pull request, thanks for that contribution
>>
>>     > Are the debian files with the telepathy-resiprocate packaging available
>>     > in a branch on github? I'd like to use that to try it out on Ubuntu.
>>     >
>>
>>     The Debian packaging is in a clone of the repository on Github, but the
>>     branches for Debian are pushed to alioth
>>
>>     The URLs are here, see the VCS link:
>>
>>     https://packages.qa.debian.org/r/resiprocate.html
>>     <https://packages.qa.debian.org/r/resiprocate.html>
>>
>>     I just made some fresh commits in the last few days
>>
>>     You should be able to do something like this to build:
>>
>>     git clone git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-voip/resiprocate.git
>>     <http://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-voip/resiprocate.git>
>>     git checkout debian/sid
>>     dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -i.* -j13
>>
>>     If you want to make changes, you could create a branch off
>>     debian/sid, e.g.
>>
>>       git branch debian/boiko-tp-qt debian/sid
>>
>>     You may have to manually install some build dependencies with apt-get,
>>     but you can get most of them with
>>
>>     apt-get build-dep resiprocate
>>
>>
>> Ah ok, I was already changing the debian/ directory I forked from master
>> to add a telepathy-resiprocate package there. I will get the debian one
>> instead.
> 
> The debian/sid branch already has a telepathy-resiprocate package
> 
> It is currently stuck in the NEW queue because each time a new package
> name is added to debian/control, it needs to be approved by the FTP
> masters again
> 
> https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html
> 
> Notice I also raised a bug against the gnome desktop package:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=838040
> 
> and if you have time to look into that issue or discuss it with the
> GNOME maintainers it would also help a lot.  Currently people can't just
> do "dpkg --purge telepathy-rakia" because of that dependency issue.
> 


I just pushed another small fix on the debian/sid branch, you may want
to pull that if you already started playing with it

Regards,

Daniel